Descendants of William (The Immigrant) Holcombe - Cemetarian

in Lumpkin County , Georgia, and died February 15, 1916 in Lenox , Clark County, Arkansas. He
married Artimissa Mitchell September 26, 1852. She was born 1833 in Forsyth Co Ga, and died
November 1909.
Notes for Asa Chandler Holcomb:
Jewell Holcomb, during a visit at his home on December 27, 1994, remembered a time when he and his
father saw Asa Holcomb at the top of a hill walking toward their house with his cane. He and his
father made a good-natured game out of predicting how many minutes it would take As to make it
down the hill and to the house. He got there in seven or eight minutes.
Asa Holcomb's muster rolls show that he joined for duty in the Civil War on March 13, 1862 in Floyd
County , Georgia as a part of Capt. Kerr's Co., Col. Morrison's Regiment; Company H of the 21st
Georgia Calvary. he was mustered in on April 29, 1862 at Camp McDonld and received a $50.00
Bounty. Asa was captured on May 28, 1863 at Mill Springs , Kentucky. He was transfered from
Lexington, Kentucky to Camp Chase, Ohio on June 10, 1863 where he stayed until June 14th Asa was
then sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at Johnson Island, New York. Later that year, November 30, 1863,
he was transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland until he was released in a prisoner exchange on July 12,
1865.
Asa Holcomb applied on June 28 , 1901 for a Civil War veteran pension from the State of Arkansas.
The accompanying physicians report describes Asa as suffering from an injury to his left knee. On of
his comrades-in-arms, Joe Wilson, attests that the injury came during his service in the Civil War. Asa,
when he applied in 1907 to increase his pension, testified that the injury occurred when his horse fell
on him in battle.
Asa Holcomb's obituary in the Southern Standard newspaper (2/10/96, p5, c4) reads as follows: Uncle
Ace , one of the oldest citizens of Clark County, died at the home of his son, W.B. Holcomb on
Saturday morning February 5, at 5:30 o'clock. He was 89 years old, and leaves one brother, one sister,
four children, several grand and great-grandchildren to mourn his death. We extend our sympathy to
the bereaved ones. Mr. Holcomb was an old soldier having served in the Civil War. (Roger Crowson
Holcomb)
More About Asa Holcomb and Artimissa Mitchell:
Marriage: September 26, 1852
Children of Asa Holcomb and Artimissa Mitchell are:
+ 96 i. William Bennett 23 Holcomb, born May 16, 1853 in Forsyth County, Georgia; died May 10, 1916 in
Lenox, Clark County, Arkansas.
97 ii. Celesta Jane Holcomb, born 1854; died Unknown.
98 iii. Newman Wilbur Holcomb, born March 17, 1856; died Unknown. He married (1) Martha King; died
Unknown. He married (2) Martha Hardage; died Unknown.
99 iv. Mary Catherine Celia Moore Holcomb, born June 03, 1862; died Unknown. She married Henderson
Diffee; died Unknown.
73. Joseph 22 Holcomb (Solomon P 21 , John 20 , John 19 , Richard B 18 , William (The Immigrant) 17
Holcombe, William 16 , William 15 , Christopher (Southern) 14 , Thomas H 13 , Ellis 12 , Charles 11 , Roger 10 ,
John 9 , John 8 , Walter 7 de Holcombe, Symon 6 , Thomas 5 , John 4 , Walter 3 , Symon 2 , Symon 1 ) was born May
10, 1833 in Lumpkin County, Georgia, and died Unknown. He married Angeline Hollingshed
October 06, 1851 in Lumpkin County , Georgia. She died Unknown.
Notes for Joseph Holcomb:
Joseph served on the Confederate side during the Civil War ; Co "E' Monroe's Confederate
Regiment.[Brøderbund Family Archive #320, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1880,
Date of Import: Jun 13, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.320.1.2875.14]
Individual: Holcomb, Joseph
County/State: Grayson Co., TX
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